DW for tumblrites part 5.5: Actual tags tho

[potofsoup]

[DW for tumblrites masterpost]

A lot of people have talked about this elsewhere, but here's the low-down on DW tags:

1) There is a tag limit. (1000 for free, 1500 for paid, 2000 for premium)
This means ... don't tag-spam?? As someone who used to write entire secondary blogs in my tags, I'm super sad about this. But here's my post about alternatives to tag-yelling.

2) Tag Management is Amazing
If you go to Organize -> Manage Tags, here are some things that you can do:

- See stats for each of your tags -- how many times used, how many private or public entries, etc. (btw if a tag only exists on private entries, it doesn't show up in your public tag cloud)
- Bulk rename tags (automatically renames it on all the posts)
- Merge tags


3) Tag Display Options: List, Cloud, Multi-level
Your tags are displayed on your Tags Page (https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/), and as an optional box in your sidebar on your blog. You can tweak the way that tags are displayed under Organize -> Customize Style

Under the "Presentation" Tab, you can customize how your tags page is shown:


Under the "Modules" Tab, you can customize how your tags show up on your blog:

(The default here was 50 tags shown, I dialed it down to 15)

List and Cloud are pretty self-explanatory. The Multi-level looks like this:


The way you make this happen is to put a colon (:) between the different levels. For example, if I post a comic, I might tag it as "mine" and also "mine:comic", so that it shows up as both. You can go multiple levels!

4) Tag Searching
So... you can search for multiple tags. I haven't been able to find an interface for it, but the URL edits are pretty straightforward -- add a comma between the tags, and add a ?mode=and if you want intersection.

https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/keep shows the posts I've tagged "keep"

https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/reblog,keep shows the posts that I've tagged "reblog" OR "keep"

https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/tag/reblog,keep?mode=and shows the posts that I've tagged "reblog" AND "keep"

5) Tag Filtering
Whitelisting and blacklisting tags by person is available for paid accounts! I blab about it here: https://potofsoup.dreamwidth.org/9164.html#cutid1
(And apparently there's a 10% discount on paid accounts every December)

Comments

[mific]

<3 I keep learning new stuff!

[potofsoup]

\o/ huzzah! I learned so much from making this series, too. <3

[sarahthecoat]

oh, I'm bookmarking this one! I like tags as a kind of index, and I LOVE the idea of the multi-level tags! On tumblr, probably 70-80% of what I reblogged was "sherlock meta" (and probably 10% or so each, "fic rec" and "art") so it drove me wild that I couldn't sort down through tags, to retrieve a subgroup on a topic. I'd have to have, and remember, and remember to use, a specific tag for that topic. And still there would probably end up being a ton of individual posts. So most of the time I just had to resort to "I know I remember reading something about this" without ever being able to hope that I would be able to dig up the post itself.

[empresszo]

Oh, nice!

[shy_magpie]

reblogged here